So do I. I also find stereotypes funny. So I am definitely not as uptight or humuorless as you probably think I am. But I dislike ones that are negative in nature. The "Irish are drunks" one is negative to me and started out and intended that way.
It's constantly used online disparagingly and it really ticks me off. "Ah, He's Irish he's probably drunk, what do you expect?".
Stereotypes are absolutely fine with me unless they are used to ridicule. How the hell would you even ridicule a Norwegian about a sausage?
Of course looking back Lotusch didn't mean it in this way and so I probably shouldn't have brought it up, but I feel I needed to vent about something that day I suppose.
I also don't know why you decided to google that term; you know it, I know it, the whole world knows it...we are a country who likes our alcohol.
Anyway, maybe you think not all Irish people get annoyed by it, or maybe the ones you know are just polite; but I can tell you with certainty that a lot of us hate it. It doesn't mean we can't take a joke...it's that people use it to ridicule us and that's not ok.